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    1 : 2700000 Description This is a superb, scarce map of Svalbard, printed in 1744. The mapping of the western portions of the archipelago - formerly known as Spitzbergen - is here very accurate, despite being erroneously labelled Greneland. In its earliest version, printed by Samuel Purchas, it was attributed to Thomas Edge, an English whaler and seal-hunter who made a number of voyages to the region, and after whom several features on the map are named. For more than a century, this wa...

The Redbud City: Sheriff Evans saga continues Clyde Wooldridge EVANS IS SHERIFF AS LYON BOND CANCELLED The same two stage hands that rang up the curtain on Pottawatomie County’s political comedy-melodrama, wrote “finis” to the exciting episode on Saturday morning, May 1, 1937. Rufus Lyon’s $10,000 surety bond was cancelled and that left Sheriff Elza Evans as the sole claimant to the little suite of offices in the northwest corner of the courthouse basement. Commissioners Frank Sims, and...

New Installment of Comic Series Features Women’s Stories of Survival The fourth volume of “Chutz-Pow!” from the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh spotlights women including silver-screen icon Audrey Hepburn. December 24, 2020 As a teenager, Audrey Hepburn smuggled food to Allied airmen shot down by Nazi forces. Decades before “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Hepburn was a member of the Dutch resistance to the Nazis, dancing at secret concerts to raise morale among starving rebels and eventual...

The Redbud City: Hospital room is scene of officials selection Clyde Wooldridge HOSPITAL ROOM IS THE SCENE OF OFFICIAL’S SELECTION A political thunderbolt rumbled across Pottawatomie County, as it flashed from a tiny room on the third floor of the A.C. H. Hospital on the afternoon of February 23, 1936. The county commissioners surprised many by naming Elza Evans, former Maud police chief, to succeed the late Walter Mosier as county sheriff. Evans, 43, was a native Maud resident, who made a ru...